Rail joint



R. PARISI RAIL Jom'r Filed April 3o, 1925 March 16 1926.

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i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RINO PARISI, ,OF RIMYER, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL JOINT.

Application filed April 30, 1925. Serial No. 27,105.

Pennsylvania, have invented certain neviT and useful Improvements in Rail Joints, of which thel following is a. specification.

This invention relates to an improved rail joint and seeks, among other objects, to provide a rigid and secure joint wherein the rails will be connected without the use of securing bolts to extend therethrough.

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a joint embodying fish plates for bracing the rail ends and wherein but a single bolt will be employed to anchor the fish plates.

And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide a rail joint wherein the rail ends will be effectively anchored but wherein expansionand contraction of the rails will be freely accommodated.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying` drawings:

Figure 1 is a slide elevation of my improved ral joint.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 2 2 of Figure 1, looking in the direction Iindicated by the arrows, and particularly showing the disposition of the fish plates.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Figure 1- is a transverse sectional view on the line 4 4@ of Figure 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, I have shown the meeting ends of rails at 10. These rails are provid-ed with webs 11 and formed in the edges of the base flanges 12 of the rails, at longitudinally spaced points, are notches 13. Seating the rail ends is a base plate 1li and rising from said base plate Inedially thereof is a thickened rail section 15 disposed be tween the rail ends mating therewith. Formed in the end portions of the base plate at opposite sides of said rail section are alined channels 16 which snugly but slidably receive the base flanges 12 of the rail ends, and projecting into said channels at opposite sides thereof are lugs 17 freely received in the notchesl13 of said base iianges.-

Thus, the lugs will eoact with the base i flanges for connecting the rail ends with each other while said rail ends may shift in the channels 16 to accommodate ex pansion and contraction of the rails. f

Formed through the rail section 15 from end to end thereof are spaced parallel slots 18 deiining an intervening web 19 alining with the webs 11 of the rails and extending "freely through said slots are ish plates 20',

the end portions of which overlie said rail webs. v Thus, the fish plateswill brace the ends of the rails as well as lock the rail ends against relative transverse movement, and extending freely through the rail section 15 and through said fish plates is a transversely disposed bolt 21 locking the fish plates against displacement. Preferably, the rail section 15 is provided at opposite slides thereof with bosses 22 to seat the head and nut of the bolt, and it is-now to be observed, as shown is Figure 4, that the fish plates are of a width to extend between the treads and base flanges of the rail ends so that the fish plates will, in addition to locking the rail ends against relative transverse movement, as previously noted, also lock the rail ends against upward movement relative to the base plate 14, so that said rail ends cannot ride out of the channels 16 of the base plate to become disengaged from the lug 17. A rigid and secure joint is thus provided.

Having thus described the invention,

what I claim is:

1. A rail joint including meeting rail ends, a base plate seating the rail ends and engaging therewith for connecting said rail ends witheach other, the base plate being formed with a rail section upstanding between the rail ends mating therewith and provided with slots, iish plates extending through said slots to overlie the rail yends locking said rail ends against relative transverse movement, and means extending through the rail section and through said fish plates locking the fish plates against displacement.

2. A rail joint including meeting rail ends, a base plate seating the'rail ends and provided with a rail section received between the rail ends mating therewith, and means extending through said rail section to overlap the rail ends bracing said rail ends.

3. A rail joint including meeting rail ends, a base plate seating the rail ends and provided wit-h a rail section received between the rail ends mating therewith, and ish plates extending through said rail section to overlap the rail ends locking'said rail ends against relative transverse movement.

4. A rail joint including meeting rail ends, a base plate seating the rail ends and provided with a rail section received `loetween the rail ends mating therewith, lish plates extending through said rail section to overlap the rail ends locking said rail ends against relative transverse movement, and means locking the fish plates upon said rail section.

5. rail joint including meeting rail ends having base Vfianges provided with notches, and a base plate having channels seating the rail ends, said channels vbei/ng provided with side walls confining the base ang'e's of the rails and having 'lugs on said sidewalls engaging in said 'notches for connecting the Vrail ends with each other. v '6. Ina rail joint, the combination of meeting rail "ends lhaving base flanges provided with notches, a base plate having channels seating the rail ends, said channels being provided with side walls confining the base flanges of the rails and having lugs on said side walls engaging in said notches for connecting the rail ends with each other, 'a rail section upstanding from the hase .plate and received between the rail ends mating therewith, and means rigidly fixed to said rail section and overlapping the rail ends for bracing the rail ends against relative transverse movement.

In 4testimony whereof I aiix my signature.

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